Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884

Seth T. Reno is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, USA. He is author of Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788–1853 (2019), editor of Romanticism and Affect Studies (2018), and co-editor of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (2016).

“Seth T. Reno’s Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884 cuts across more than a century’s worth of aesthetic and scientific cultural production … . Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain surveys a wide range of writings that self-consciously chronicle … . Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain surveys an incredibly rich archive and observes numerous connections between anthropogenic enterprise and geophysical processes.” (Devin M. Garofalo, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)

• 1. The Cradle of the Anthropocene.- 2. Volcanoes and Industrialization in Early Anthropocene Literature.- 3. Rivers, Canals, and Commerce in the Early Anthropocene.- 4. Clouds and Climate Change in the Nineteenth Century.- Epilogue: Modernism and the Anthropocene.